He has participated in more than ten journalistic consulting projects in different Latin American countries and in Spain. In 2010 he published the book “Bernardo Calle Amazonas” (Altaïr, Barcelona) on the Brazilian Amazon. He is also author of the Open-Source novel “#24H” (dpr-barcelona).

Here’s our translation of Bernardo Gutiérrez’s love letter to his home city, a place that’s still surprisingly alive and vibrant in the midst of the austerity meltdown affecting southern Europe.

“The native peoples anticipated the much-touted sharing economy by a few centuries. While the current global crisis pushes capitalism towards an irreversible mutation, our vision of a post-capitalist future is remarkably similar to the pre-capitalist origins of indigenous America.”